Sunday, March 12th 2023
ASRock Cuts Prices on Intel Arc Graphics Options
Over the past couple days ASRock has been busy slashing prices on their lineup of Arc graphics cards. Currently (on Newegg at least) you can now find their Challenger Arc A380 for $120, down from $150, the Challenger Arc A750 8 GB at $240, down from $290, and the flagship Phantom Gaming Arc A770 8 GB at $270, down from $320. The new pricing may be in response to prior price drops by Intel, and possibly hints at more to come.
With its new price ASRock's Arc A770 8 GB in particular is placed in a more advantageous position against NVIDIA's RTX 3060 which has only recently seen reduced prices and still lists for well above $300, even $400 for some partner models. AMD is still placed quite competitively thanks to ASRock themselves listing their RX 6600 XT offerings for $275, making the choice between the RX 6600 XT and Arc A770 8 GB a more difficult one. The RX 6650 XT could also be considered as it regularly appears for $290, a mere $20 more than the revised A770 8 GB pricing, and provides a measurable (if minimal) uplift in performance.
This kind of competitive pricing along with Intel's driver team working overtime on improving features, performance, and stability could put Arc on track to being less of a beta test novelty and more of a real threat to the established offerings on the market.
With its new price ASRock's Arc A770 8 GB in particular is placed in a more advantageous position against NVIDIA's RTX 3060 which has only recently seen reduced prices and still lists for well above $300, even $400 for some partner models. AMD is still placed quite competitively thanks to ASRock themselves listing their RX 6600 XT offerings for $275, making the choice between the RX 6600 XT and Arc A770 8 GB a more difficult one. The RX 6650 XT could also be considered as it regularly appears for $290, a mere $20 more than the revised A770 8 GB pricing, and provides a measurable (if minimal) uplift in performance.
13 Comments on ASRock Cuts Prices on Intel Arc Graphics Options
This is a response to that. These cards are just not worth $300+
Also most articles just ignores the RX 6600 and 6700 exists, those cards are often on discount and very competitve in price.
As for nVidia they just don't care as usual.
It looks better when results / comparisions are cherry picked.
Every card just beats the price/performance of the 3050/3060 by default.
Intel tried to get away with pricing the A770 at $350 against nVidia but ignore RDNA2 and it logically didn't sell.
If there any, I really expect some ( good ) things from Intel for thei next gen GPU
TL:DR - there is not such a huge difference in price to performance for A770
but A750? In 1440p "frames per $" chart, it is literally better pick than RX 6650 XT
if that is not a good sign, then i don't know what isay, A750 much better in price for performance than RX 6650 XT :S
Their window truly came to sell GPUs and that is because AMD and Nvidia are so slow to release their cheaper options. Nevertheless, I would say the price around 300 € for 8 GBs of VRAM and the performance level in question are not really that appealing, just the best option at hand for now.
Like the first Gen of RyZen processors Intel’s ARC GPUs are a good first effort . Undoubtedly some will buy into it, rightfully so however, the next Gen is telling and may bring more confidence in the line.
It’s tempting though,…
Very tempting,…
There is still the matter of game performance consistency with one’s game library (both new and old titles). Some people might be willing to take a chance on Intel Arc Now but IMO, if your trying to save some money then an AMD video card is a better bet.
Still tempting to see what Intel can do in this space, now and in the future.